Re: [PATCH] arm64: make atomic helpers __always_inline

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 09:32:58AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > With UBSAN enabled and building with clang, there are occasionally
> > warnings like
> > 
> > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0xc533ec): Section mismatch in reference from the function arch_atomic64_or() to the variable .init.data:numa_nodes_parsed
> > The function arch_atomic64_or() references
> > the variable __initdata numa_nodes_parsed.
> > This is often because arch_atomic64_or lacks a __initdata
> > annotation or the annotation of numa_nodes_parsed is wrong.
> > 
> > for functions that end up not being inlined as intended but operating
> > on __initdata variables. Mark these as __always_inline, along with
> > the corresponding asm-generic wrappers.
> 
> Hmm, I don't fully grok this. Why does it matter if a non '__init' function
> is called with a pointer to some '__initdata'? Or is the reference coming
> from somewhere else? (where?).

FWIW the x86 atomics are __always_inline in part due to the noinstr
crud, which I imagine resulted in much the same 'fun'.